The Sun. — London, England, 1838-02-19 00:00:00

Arriv, d. Duel 0 A.,,enca . 0 8raA11......-.... 0 0 Buelos A yrel.. fl 0 caro.aFeua........ 3 Dublin.- 9. Flanciert 0 N.: AI LS. Arrived. Due. A trNed. Duc. '2 Frai.ce .... --. 0 0 Lavt , on 1 0 Gueru. A Jersey 1 I u MILICa . ...... .., ti 0 Hamburg 1 0 Mexico 0 0 Holland ..... ..... 1 0 (Metal .. ...... n Jamaica ......„,.. 0 0 Sweden 0 0 Leeward Islands n 0 Waterford...— 4 - - HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MOIIROW. Honing s minutes after 10 I Evening minuteA after 10 -------- The p u blication of THE SUN NfiNCSPAPIta commenced this day at 20 minutes past Three o' Clock. spiracy to raise wages ; 44" a 'it is therefore clearly of opinion, that to punish the ofre ace more severely, is a use less, wanton, and wicked intik-4:lc nof pain. If we recollee! right, too, that Act was gassed after an investigation, pro moted by Mr. HusaissoN, .t:1 the effect of Mr. HustE's Act to repeal the Combine don Laws, and is to be consi dered as the deliberate COT .clusion of the Legislature only nine years ago, and sinco -:hen the current of public opinion has not set towards cruelty, that two years' imprisonment was as much punistm , ,nt as the offence deserved. How, then, can the Scotch Judges, and how enn the Ministers, fly in the face of the Legislature, and send the Glasgow Cotton Spinners out of the country to labour in gangs in Van Diemen's Land for seven years ? Warned, 4'4 the Ministers now are and have been, were they to repeat t h e mi nt ; error they committed as to the Dorsetshire labourers, and basilly k' send the Spinners out cf the country, their conduct would tipr.a.ar to the great mass of the working people nithout excuse, and would stamp them for ever in their minds as their determined enemies. No Government can afford gratuitously to earn the hatred of large classes of men, and we trust therefore that the Ministers will not be in haste to carry into execution a -.ntenee which tested by the English law and the latest opi .'-- Legislature is 4 cruel injustice. wineu THE TRUE i4VN" IS NOW ~ORPor ATED. LAND ON i MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY _ l9 ' le"- We quoted a passage from the Times on Saturday, which placed the resistance to the Ballot on the ground that the: present elector; are not qualified to exercise the franchise. " Ought," asked our Contemporary, " men to be entrusted with the franchise whose position in society debars them from its free and unbiassed exercise ?" In the same spirit the Times declares this morning against the Ballot, be- Cause it will increase the power of the Democracy : " On this pint of the question, it says, we are ready to take tic bull by the horns, and to declare that any mischief to the• commonwealth resulting from the possible and inevi tably partial use of such intimidation as can be exercised by men of large propert.; and intelligence, over these who hare little of either, must be utterly insiO4cant, when compared with the irresponsible oatnipotence of the laliottring and unin structed classes, acting under oultitudinuous exe,!'tMent , and indulging their prejudice, fanaticism, or vengeance, w ! .11 c'ut the direction of reason, or the fear of controul, but under thu guilty guidance of demagogue ambition." Passing by the clap-trap of voters taking revenge by means of the Ballot / box, it is obvious that this passage expresses the one grand Tory principle, that the masses are not to be trusted. If they cannot be coerced, they must be influenced, deluded, and cheated. In the same manner " it ROBERT PEEL confessed (we quote a writer in the Chronide that there were times and circumaances under which he' did not think it expedient or compatible with the preservation of peace and security to the institu tions of the country, that the electors should exercise their nion of ti,, At last our Contemporaries, both daily and weekly, have taken up the subject of the Coal Monopoly. Whether they were starved to it by the cold, or warmed to it by our example, we cannot tell ; at all events, the poor have now the benefit of their support ; but how comes it to pass that each of them contains an abstract of a previous inquiry ? Why was not such previous inquiry published before, awl at the time it took place ? No Captain FISHER was ex amined last Saturday—when was be examined ; and why was such examination kept back until this day ? Surely this protracted report could not have been forced forward by the steps we alone had taken to drag this monstrous tuouopoly to light ? The Aldermen, too, we are glad to s 4, displayed on Saturday a much warmer zeal than any they had ::,?fore exhibited. To Mr. Alderman HARMER, and also to Aldei7an VENABLES, the poor owe many thanks. There is another Alderman, however—a man ion of a Reformer—professing to rejoicing in the appelL + be a " full-length" man—a d em , j friend to every p o pul ar political charge that can tickle the ears °fa larger constituency' affecting to advocate the shortest Parliaments and thti ri;2st extended Suffrage ; but not at all ready to save . tens of thousands of his own constituents, their wives and their little ones, from almost perishing with cold ; on the con trary, this bold, this unblushing special pleader for a most accursed monopoly—ready to vindicate high pries en the ground that coal-owners and factors had a right " to do what they liked with their own," and to continue every un employed vessel in the pool, and that to the serious ob struction of the navigation and injury to the trade of Lon don, on the ground that such a system was necessary to the maritime interests, and that to keep all employed, instea4 of being one-third idle, would be to " annihilate a part of the nursery of the navy." Why did not this worthy Alderman and zealous patric extend his views still further? Why did he not carry out his own propcsition, and recommend not only o3e third remaining idle (the crews to be paid by the poor of Lon don), but that only one f.urth should be employed ? There would then be a still larger nursery for our maritime interests, and coals might not, perhaps, he more than twice as dear as they at present are! franchise wholly free from sa:aitary influence." In precisely the same spit:A the Conservative writer of a pamphlet called " The Ballot a. 7.4.1 the Constituency," declares, ex plicitly that the presCnt constituency are not fit to be trusted with the independent exer cise of the elective franchise ;" and be proposes to give each elector several votes, in propertied to his pro perty, on that principle of representing brick a.7d mo rtar which has already caused such heart-burnings in many of oar parishes. Now this true Tory principle of refusing to confide in the electors and in the people at large is, we admit, a consistent and proper reason in the mouth of Sir ROBERT PEEL for opposing the Ballot ; but how can the Whigs vote with those, in any one instance, who avow that as the principle of their conduct ? What has been the main principle of the Whigs, by which they have been distinguished from the Tories during the last sixty years ? Confidence in the people. The Tories say coerce, the Whigs trust them. On what ground did they, year after year, advocate the emancipation of the Catholics ? They preached con fidence in the Catholics. They also persuaded the Legis lature, when they abolished the Test Acts, to rely on the Dissenters ; and when they proposed Parliamentary Re form, what was their chief argument but the necessity of atta cling the bulk of the people to the institutions of the country, by confiding in them ? What, too, did Lord J OHN Rc'.9SELL tell us at the beginning of the Session, but that the ,way to content the people was to com ply with their' just demands ? On that principle he and all the Mini,:ters propose to place in the hands of the people the government if the towns of Ireland. Nor does this confidence date only from 1829, though when Lord LYNDHURST then quoted a celebrated passage from Mr. Beaxes speech on conciliation with the Colonies, in order to justify his departure from the Tory principle of coercion, and his adoption of the Whig principle of trust, he made the main distinction between the two parties quite clear. Mr. BURKE'S great argument was that placing confidence in the people, three cases be quoted, absi.lin in; from coercing them, and admitting them to all the pri 'doges of the Constitution " operated like a charm, tumults ceased, obedience was restored ; peace, order, and civiliza tion followed in the train of liberty." For upwards of half a century, through some of the most extraordinary and trying vicissitudes to which society was ever ex posed, has confidence in the people been the polar star of the Whigs ; and the amazing success which they had in calming an excited nation, by acting on it in the case of Parliamentary Reform, ought only to have endeared it to the reason and the hearts of statesmen. Now, however, the Whigs have sided with those who retase to trust the people. They are accordingly lauded by the Times. For, one, though it be a grievous error, our placable Contemporary speaks of Lord JOHN RUSSELL, heretofore in its vocabulary, the shabbiest of the shabbies, as a " man of spirit and honour." Mr. HALL no doubt foresaw the contumely of praise to which Lord JOHN and the Ministers were exposing themselves by aiding with the coercive Tories against the confiding Liberals, and opposing the principles of the Whigs, when P.° , pointed out on Thursday night, the slough through which the Noble Lord was wading. Sir ROBERT PEEL and the Tories think that the people may be influenced by assion, and are therefore not to be trusted. But are The reasoning of this Alderman would be merely ridi culous, were it not mischievous. There was something, however, which dropped from him on Saturday relating to the opposition which Parliament and Government would make to any plan which should lessen the number of seamen employed in the collier trade. Was this a mere slip of the tongue, or is there something behind the scenes with which the public is not acquainted ? We happen to know that " noses" have been counted,in the Coal Committee by the monopolists, and that in the Vote Office of the House of Commons a certain partizan of their's has been heard to sum np their strength to one of the Members of that very Committee in the following somewhat suspicious way : " Mr. -- is a coalman ; Mr. is a coaltnati ; you are a coalman ; Mr. -- is a coalman," &c. &c. What could the worthy Alderman and Hon. Member mean? We have heard, indeed, that one of the very members of that Committee, at a meeting of coal-owners in the North, moved and carried a motion, that " no more coals should be sent to London for a fortnight." What was the object of that motion ? The poor, who are paying two shillings per hundred for their coals, will be at no loss to discover it. There arc, however, some good Members on this Com mittee, who will not permit the inquiry to be burked. To these Members the public must look for support. We tie not believe one word of the indecent bravado, that Guvern ment will oppose the opening of the trade, on the flimsy pretence that it would endanger the maritime interests of the country. If the people will only come forward with their petitions, Government dare no more adopt such a course, .than they dare to limit the supply of flour to the bakers, or sheep and oxen to the butchers. We are satis Lied that it is an idle and groundless calumny. By the former Coal Committee in 1835, and the altera tions consequent on its Report—especially the substitution of sales by weight for sales by measure—it is evident that the intention of Parliament then was to protect the public against the frauds, impositions, and extortions of the Coal owners and factors. The same arguments might have been used then as are used now to prevent Reform. The ob ject then was to protect the public against exorbitant prices—the object now is to protect the public against exorbitant prices—the intention is the same—let the acts correspond ; as meters were discarded then, let monopoliiti be defeated now, by adding clauses to the Bill to prevent the double combinations of the factors and the owners—the conspiracies of the north and the south—to starve the poor and cheat the pubile. Legislators never led away by orators ? Does Sir ROBERT PEEL forget how much his vamped-up story and well-told tale of cruelties practised in Ireland, many years before, ivhich:had previously served the same deluding purpose two or three times, led the House of Commons to pass, al most by acclamation, Lord STANLEY'S Coercion Law In our leading article on Saturday, on the subject of the late discussion of the Ballot, we made an allusion to Mr. SIIEIL, on the supposition that he had purposely abstained from giving his vote. This was an oversight on our part, for the Hon. and Learned Gentleman, in consequence of his having accepted one of the Commissionerships of Greet.- wich Hospital, was compelled to vacate his seat, and is not, at this moment, a Member of Parliament. Having thus, in the hurry of writin;, made an erroneous charge against Mr. SIIEIL, we feel it our duty to make him every reparatiop, hich we do the more willingly, because we have ever held iris character in admiration as an eloquent and unr;earied advocate for the rights and liberties of the people. He is now in Ireland, and will no doubt be returned by uis late constituents—the patriotic electors of Tipperary. We could ill spare the wit, sarcasm, and enthusiastic ap peals of Mr. SIIEIL in Parliament, when political shuffling is to be exposed, or the cause of the injured to be vin dicated. • for Ireland, which the House of Commons regretted brfon: the Session came to its close. Sir ROBERT judges of others by himself and his friends, and because he has frequently led the mob which congregates in the:House of Com mons astray, he asserts th a t : t h e b u lk of the nation is not to be trusted. This doctrine, if not followed by the Whigs, would give us no concern. It is characteristic of his party ; but when we find the Whigs embracing it, we are smitten with dismay for its possible consequences. It must be followed out to despotism, or, provoking the country, must be given up, as in 189.9 and 1830, to the apprehen sion or rebellion. These statesmen will not trust the na tion, and in turn the nation will not trust these statesmen and—when the mistrust is mutual and complete, the de soruction of our present political system will not be remote. One of the earliest cases which made the Whig Admi nistration be regarded as unfriendly by the working classes was the case of the Dorsetshire labourers. The haste with which they were sent out of the country fur an offence which in point of law was very doubtful, and which, sup. posing them to be thoroughly cognizant of the law, and meaning to set it aside, was very severely punished, revolted the labouring classes, and made them speak of the Whigs as no better than the Tories. Nor did the pardon, followed by recal of the expatriated men, tardily granted, while it is plainly admitted the injustice of the punishment, and the haste with which it was carried into execution. reconcile the working classes to the Ministers. Since then the declamations of the Tory Press on the subject of the Poor Laws have deeply impressed on their minds the sen timent of hostility, and they--certainly in Yorkshire, and the r,crtlicai counties, now regard the present Minis ters as more their decided enemies than the Tories. In the case of the Dorsetshire labourers they suffered them selves to be made the instruments for executing the blind and bigotted anger of the Dorsetshire magistrates ; and we hope that they will not now repeat that error, and hasten to execute on the Glasgow cotton spinners the wrath of the capitalists, and the angry perversities of Scotch Judges and Scotch law. The discrepancy betwee n that law and the law of England has been pointed out both in Parliament and by the Press ; and taking that at its minimum, the seven year's banishment with which the cfronce is punished in Scotland, while it can only be punished by two years' imprisonment in England, is, by all the excess, a cruel injustice. No longer ago than the year 1829 the Legislature ordained two years' imprisonment as the maximum punishment for an assault growing out of a con- Lord BROUGHAM has g,ivea notice that he will move in the House of Peers to-morrow, a series of Resolutions fledging the Government to a more active suppression of that most detestable of traffics—the traffic in Slaves. Every friend of humanity must rejoice at the determina •ion of the Noble and Learned Lord that, the goncr.)us— , , he immense sacrifices made by the British Parliament and people, for the protection of the poor Africans, shall not have been made in vain. After bribing every Slave-holding State in the Old and New World, except France and the United States, to put an end to this infamous traffic—after expending millions to extort from tyranny and avarice a right which GOD and nature gave us to prevent the most flag rant injustice of which man in an uncivilized state can pos sibly be the victim—it is surely not too much to insist that a Jest of pirates shall not be suffered to deprive mankind of the fruits of our chivalrous as well as Christian philanthrephy. The only reasonable objection which we can anticipate being made to Lord Brum ottases Slavery resolutions is, that they ought to be divided, and made the subjects of two distinct and separate motions. Instead of the whole, the following only should be moved in the House of Lords to morrow ADDRESS.—FOREIGN SLAVE TRADE. That an humble Address be presented to her Majesty, earnestly beseeching her Majesty to take immediate steps fur negotiating with the Governments of Spain and Portugal, andobtaining the concurrence of the Governments of France and the United Statea in such negotiations, with a view to declare the trade in slaves piracy, wherever the sante is car ried on ; and making those who persist in it liahle to all the pains and other consequences of piracy. RESOLUTIONS.—SLAVF, TRADE. 1. That it is the opinion of this House that the reward of person engaged in suppressing tho trade trade in slaves, by the payment to them of head-money, is highly inexpedient, and THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1838. ou tf ht to he di!continned ; and that in lieu thereof there should be substituted a pa}ment in proportion to the ton- . nage of the vesse l s emp l oyed, and the number of guns, and of the crew on board the sanic. 2. That it is expedient for the more effectual suppression of the trade in slaves to employ a number of steam-vessels, under the comman d o f the cru'izers of her Majesty, and to issue to private individuals letters of marque, to enable them to fit out such vessels, but so as they place such vessels un do- the co mman d o f h er Majesty's cruizers ; and that the money paid by wa y o f rew.trd on the capture of any slave trachl vessel, as well as the proceeds of the sale of such Arcs % sel when condemned, be distributed among the crew of such pi ivate verscl, subject t 3 a deduction of one-fourth part, f‘hich should be made payable to the officers and crew of the cruizer under whose command the private vessel may be. length, and they again anchored, the Corsair outside of the of her two. The brig had by this time got off the ground, and within an hour, the breeze still continuing astern, came within hail the Corsair, and passing close to her stern fired a gun. Now, it must he recollected that on the day before the Rug lish vessels had shown their colours twice when in company with the brig. However, on the gun being fired the Cor sair and Phantonaihoisted an ensign. Within a few minutes a second gun was fired from the brig, and the Pet, which had paid no attention to the first gun, now showed her flag. The Russian being by this time becalmed also came to an anchor. These circumstances have been stated to the British Consul here, and the communication has given rise to the fol lowing question : " If a French merchantman were at anchor in Torbay %lith no flag flying, and a Russian man-of-war were to arrive there wit'* an ensign up, can or cannot the Russians, neither of the vessels being in her own waters, fire a gun to make the French man hoist his colours ?" _ . 'FI!e remaining Resolutions, which have reference to the working of the Slave Emancipation Act of 1833 in the British Colonies —and we shall annex presently—ought, in our opinion, to f orm the subject of a distinct and separate motion. The working of the Emancipation Act hag clearly nothing whatever to do with the question of the Slave Trade, now most shamefully carried on under the aus pices of certain Spanish and Portuguese merchants, and the mixing up of two questions so distant in themselves, may lead to an imperfect, if not an erroneous expression of the opinions of Parliament respecting the enormity of the Slave traffic. The following are the Resolutions which we think the Noble and Learned Lord would act snore wisely in moving by themselves, and not, as his Lordship proposes, in conjunction with the foregoing : If there was something very suspicious in the appearance of the vessel, perhaps this question might be answered in the affirmative, but everyone here replies at once in the negative. Now, if such answer be right for a Frenchman in an English anchorage, it must also be right for an Englishman in a Turkish ancliora.re. Thank God 1 the Dardanelles do not belong to Russia yet, and the officers of this man-of-war brig seem to have overstepped their duty in the affair mentioned above. They must ha v e been as green as their uniforms if they mistook either the Phantom for the Flying Dutchman, or the Corsair for a pirate. Had they done so, some excuse might be offered for their firing a gun, but as they had seen both these vessels during the whole of-tin - day before, they could not but have recognised them immediately. 'rlie Pet was certainly a stranger. but this circumstance does not anct the real ques tion. The name of the Russian brig-of-war is Thc:nistocles, Captain Nicolo Mityleno. The whole of the Paris Journals of Friday and Saturday have been received. They contain no political news of any interest. After a protracted debate the Chamber of Deputies, on Wednesday, ♦•oted the further consideration of M. Passit's project for effecting the emancipation of slaves in the French Colonies, though the question was opposed, on the ground of being premature, by the Cabinet. No defence of slavery, in the abstract was attempted by any party. The measure was warmly supported by MM. DE LAIIARTINE, ODIL LON BARROT, and GUIZOT. The Chamber of Peers has passed the Bill for granting a pension to the widow of General DASIREMONT. On the motion of N. VILLEMAIN, the Peers augmented the grant, and regulated its appropriation in the way at first proposed by Ministers. Thus amended, it was sent back to the Deputies, who had not, on Saturday, fixed a day for the re-consideration of the Bill. General NARISIIKIN, Grand Marshal of the Court of St Petersburg, has arrived in Paris. FRUNCII FUNDS —Pante. Fun. 17. Five per Cents.. 109 f. 350. 4tic. 30e. S.se. Four per Cents., lOU. 75r. throe per Cents., 79f. 55e. tie. 50c. 4.ie. Yank Actions, 9,1190 f. Bente de Naples , 90f. 10e. Roman Five per Cents., 1017.3 i. Spanish Actives, 10,134, Spanish Passives, 4. Belgian Bank, 1,555 f. 1,530 f. Portuguese Loan, Three per Cents. 17%. Hayttan Loan, Sysf. RXCRANOR OR LONDON. One month, paper, 25f. 47%e.; money, 25f. 4714 e. Three months, paper, 95f. 36c. ; money, 25f. M4e. LAST PRICER. Five per Cents. 100 f. 30e. Three por Cents. 79f. 50c. Bank Actions, 2,683 f. Romans ' I (II N. Belgian Bank, 1,515 f. Spanish Actives, 19 Spanish Passives, 4. Haytian Loan, 3ssf. Brussels and German Papers have been received, but their contents are uninteresting. BELGIAN FUNDS—Nauseate, Ftn 17. Actual Debt, '234 per Cent. Rothschild's Loan, S per Cent. 1t0 2 14 Loan of Thirty Millions ASS( Loan of City, 142. 4 per Cent Vii Society of Commerce, 4 s,',per Cent l3l. Rank of Belgium, b per Cent l4l liatienal Society . —Brussels Pipers, Feb. 17. DUTCH FUNDS.—AsisTkabay, Fee. 16. Actual Debt, ay e per Cent. Do do. 5 per Cent. Amort Syndic 4!•y per Cent., Do. do. - 3 4 per Cent. Cemmercial Company, 4% per Cent 179!4 NOW ditto , AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, Fae. 10. Five per Cents. Mutalliquee Foer per Cents. Three per Cents. Bank Shares ... 1469 —.lllgemeine Zeitkng, Feb. 15. BRISTOL ELECTION COMMITTEE (THIS DAY.) The Committee met this morning at eleven o'clock. Tile first witness examined was Sarah Berrier, the wife of William Bereier, newavender, a freetnan of Bristol. She deposed that on the Wednesday or Thursday before the %hitt was hurled, Mr, BOriLlgey and ?4r. Carlite came to her house and ingured for whom her husband intends,' to vote. She said she believed one and one. Mr. Carlde arid that was stabs, and he would give her husband the N, at Christmas. Mr, .Berkeley, before going away, shuck hand* with her and plae:d something In her hand, desiring her to give It te her htts band. Atter the gentleman hut gone sire examined the paper and found it to contain a sovereign. Qn cross-examination witness maid that her husband was in prison at the two of the election, and did not vote for Mr, Berkeley . He had talon the beoeflt of the Insolvent Act three times, and had Lesid e s these time; beat in ' , OM for other debts, Hcr husband had had the al. before. He got it lour years ago, In answer to questions by Mr. BALL, the witness contradicted the evidence she had given in many respects, particularly as to the inter. views she had with Mr. Harmer (the agent for the petitioner), at one time stating that she had not seen him since her arrival in London until this morning, and at another that she had seen him last week, when she mentioned the sovereign to him. She denied ever baling Mentioned it to him at Bristol. Sarah Anh thtwerd, the daughter of the last witness, save evidence as to the convcrsatiou abottt aml liusiptualt trailSrtt was QX amined as to the same facts. The latter witness stated that Mr. c4rlile actually promised the 6/. for Berrier'a vote. .4& • t • r _ . , ^ • i; ZU RESOLUTIONS-SLAVERY. 1. That it is expedient, with a view to carry into effect the intentions of the Act of 1833, that there should be such a distribution of the work and labour of the indentured ap prentices as shalt leave them the half of every Friday to them selves for working in their provision grounds, and the whole of every Saturday for attending the market. 2. That it is expedient to declare all apprentices who at present are registered as non-prredial still non-prtedial on the Ist day of August, 1838, notwithstanding any agreement be tween them aid their masters, or any change of employment which they may have undergone, or may hereafter undergo, since the time of their registration. 3. That all questions which may arise between apprentices and masters respecting their rights, after the lit day of Au. gust, 1838, shall be decided by the stipendiary Magistrate of the district where the parly complaining resides, without any appeal or other proceeding whatever. 4. That no female apprentice shall on any pretence be flogged or otherwise punished by any infliction upon her per son ; and that if any such punishment shall be inflicted, or if any punishment shall be inflicted which is found to have been wrongfully inflicted by the authority of the master, such ap paentice shall be immediately declared free from her appren ticeship; and that all complaints of such female apprentice, touching any punishment, shall be heard by the stipendiary Magistrate of tite district alone, and decided on by him with out appeal. 5. That it is expedient to vest in the Governors of the sc yeral. Colonies, the power of making such regulations respect ing the gaols and respecting the police of the several Colonies as they shall think lit, the same to have the force of laws until disallowed by her Majesty's Government; and that copies of the la= sttll be transmitted forthwith to her Ma jesty's Government. 6. That it is expedient that the period of pradial appren tipAip in all the Colonies should cease and determine on the Ist day f irelugust, 1838, and that until such time the fore going regglationa p,44bt to be everywhere observed and en forced by law, That France will cordially co-operate with England in putting !In end to the Slave traffic is certain ; but no re liance can be placed on the professed zeal of the Govern ments of Opein and Portugal to effect such an object. On the contrary, it l 4 notorious that within the last twelve months several starers h4vo been fitted up in the Tagus, under the eye of the Government t and that when com plaints were made a sham search was made, a false report return d, and care taken to apprise the suspicious-looking craft of their dowager, time enough to allow them to get out of the way, i i to avoid future misunderstandings it may be as well to etttort a pp-opera tion wirgch has been repeatedly purchased, and cannot. under any eirciawstitnees be refused. We are not so Ilans guine as to expect the co-operation of the United States Government in the suppression of slarg7 abroad, distracted as it it present by the question of slavery at home, Let those who differ from us on this point take the trouble to peruse the tottowing resolutions which were de bateti .congress on the 28th of Deaerobpr jag, and which were warmly supported by some of the niest distinufsbed Senators in the United gt 4 t es Resolved, That domestic slavery, a s it exists in the S out h er n • and 'e tern States of this Union, composes an import wilt or their tiOrga;lic institutions, inherited from their an cestors, and ea1.i.:44 At the adoption of the Constit ut io n , by tNhich it is recogniied as constituting an essential elewnt in the distribution powers among the States; iin,4 that no change of opinion, 4r feeling, o n the part of the ottior, fates of the Union in relation to it, Can jus tify them or their eitim.s in open and systerncie attacks there, on, with the view to its overthrow ; and that all such attacks are iH manifest violation of the mutual and solemn pledge to protect azki defend each other, given by the States, respec tively, on entor;s4 into the constitutional compact which formed the Union, era its such is a manifest breach of faith, ac e d A violation of the most ia/emn obligations, moral and Resolved, That the intermeddlin,g of any iiitata or States, or their citizens, to aboligh slavery in this district , o r all y of the territories, on the git. 444 or under the pretext, that it is immoral or sinful ; or the psteegp pf any act or measure of Congress, with that view, would be a ..i . ;.42,ct And dangerous attack on the institutions of all the slaveholding Resolved, That the uni - sr of these States rests on at. equality of r ights and advantJges m i #ong it s members ; and that whateverde,stroys that equality, tess.4 to destroy the Union itself; and diet it is the solemn duty of ad, iind wore especially of this body, which represents the States in ti&eir ' corporaw rapacity, to resist all ettampts to discriminate between the }Mates, in extending die Jign.plits of the Government to tile 4,4Teral portions of the Union; P. 04 that to refuse to extend to tins gcqthersi and Western St ates any advontage which would t en d to ii trengthen or to render them more uc t ire, or i ncrease t h e i r or popula tion by the anno t atio n o f new terr i tor y or moa t a States, ' oil the assumption, or tinder the pretext, that the in. ' stitutiou of slavery, as it exists tinning them, i 3 immoral or sinful, or otherwise obnoxiou7, would Ira contrary to that equality of rights stud advanta g es which the Constitut ion was intended to secure alike ta all the members of the Union, and would, in effect, di s f ranc hi se t h e e l ave h o ldi n g States, with holding ithferourstr, o tltret,n6re Government.the advant ages , w hile it subjected them to Madrid Journals of the llth inst., with letters from Bayonne of the 14th, have reached us this morning. Itc ports were received by the Madrid Cabinet, from the pro ‘incial authorities, stating that in consequence of the nu merous outrages committed in various districts, it was found necessary to proclaim martial law in Seville, Cor dova, Cadiz, and Huelva. On the sth inst. the Christinos, under the command of GeLeral L AURENO SANz, Brigadier PARDINOS, and Colonel URBINO, fell in with the united bands of BAAILIO, TOLLADA, and PALILLos, near Übeda, when the rebels were defeated, with the loss of many killed and wounded and 483 prisoners, including twelve Carlist officers and a Chief of distinction. On the Bth inst. the Deputies agreed to the Bill for the tr._:w levy of 40,000 men , w hi c h was sen t immediately to the Senate. The newly elected Deputies for Madrid had taken their seats, but the subjects under discussion were of no political interest to fore'gners. The Pharc de Bayonne has published a diplomatic note addressed to the Spanish Government by the English and French Ambassadors at the Court of Spain, recommending a meeting of Commissioners at Paris, who are to invite the Great Northern Powers to concur with them in a scheme for the pacification of the Peninsula. Before we offer any observation upon this document we must ascertain whether it be or be not auth ntic. Ativices from Constantinople of the 27tli ult., have been received, they are confined to the annunciation of two events a hick have caused some stir in that capital— namely, the death of the SULTAN'S youngest son on the 24th, and the firing upon three English vessels by a t Russian Brig, in the waters of the Porte. As thi s out rage diplomatic has been pr a ote a ste a d s itamgaainysiteabd to importantC apai y the of the explanations,Englishvesseltsve n copy the following account of i t f rom t h e private correspondence of the Mornin g, Post CONSTANTINOPLE, JAN. 25.—0 n Sunday last several ves sels arrived from the southward the first two were the schooners PAantom, of and from Liverpool, C a p ta i n Samuel Saunders ; and the Corsair, Corsair W. B. C om i ng, from Liverpool and Syra. The Cor.vair and . Phanto m l e f t S yra fi toether, a few hours after a Russian bug-of-war, an d w h en these' two vessels approached the entrance to the Dard ane ll es , on the sth inst., the same brig was seen at anchor, just after daylight, off Cape Janissary (Asia). I n pass i ng her at the distance of two miles , the schooner sho we d t h e i r colours, and then anchored off Capo Greco (Europe), The Russian brj shortly afterwards got under weigh, and brought up close (*.the schooners, on board of each of which an English ensign was kept 4 ) iliz for several hours. In the afternoon the Mig-of-war again got uneei wsjgh l followed by the schooners. The latter anchored at nine, p!at., to Cliffs, having passed the Russian brig ashore. 'The Al schooner, of . oatii,mowli. Captain Stone, was a l so at White Cliffs. On the 6th a lig4P fair breeze sprang up, and the three schooners weighed togetiler. r i i 43 wind how ever, failed them before they proceeded mini" cables' SLIGO ELECTION COMMITTEE, (THIS DAY.) The Committee met at eleven o'clock on Saturday. Mr. TIMMER and Mfi Simi► Appeared for the petitioner, Mr. MARTIN (Tory). Mr. HAax►sox an►i Mr. lipwL4=►N ter the liittine Member, Mr, Somm (Liberate. The Committee adjourned till this morning, with the consent of both Pa'thti, because the deeds of Mr. Comas' qualification had not arrived. Mr. 't - •:HEsslGEk—The petitioner having previously given up the question of scrutiny, now proceeded, in a long and able argument, to dispute the validity of Mr. Somers' qualification, on the ground that it dill not amount to the full value required by law. The property is held on past of a lease for lives only—a small part on a lease of lives re. newable for ever. The question, therefore, so lately decided by the Belfast Committee will probably arise. BELFAST ELECTION COMMITTEE (THIS DAY). Mr. Gibson's qualification having been disallowed, the Counsel for the petitioners wore engaged this morning i■ proving that at the elec_ firm notice PIM given of the insufficiency of his qualification ; the effect Of which will be to strike off all his ♦otes, and give the vacant seat to Ur, Tenneut, the candidate who had the largest number of votes. IPSWICH ELECTION COMMITTEE (THIS DAY.) The Committee met at twelve o'esick. The vote of Robert Johnson was objected to by the Liberals, on the ground of bribery, by treating, Sze. Stokes Dowell, a lad, who at the time of the election, was a waiter at the Waggon anti Horses public.house, was called, and deposed that the day before the election, Johnson, with others, was brought into tha t public-house, and slept there, after having been eating and drinking a! ( ay till night, free of expellee ; and that on the day of the election,l he went from the public house to the rill. Daniel Glover, butcher, corroborated this evidence. THE DIVISION ON THE BALLOT. TO the EDITOR of the MORNING CHRONICLE. Slit—Please to correct the statement you have given at the end of the List of the Division on the Ballot, where you state that / w •absent f r om ;lbws,. I w as present at the debate, and divided in the minority, as you will see in the list ; and the public may suppose that I skulked, as others have done, from the record of my vote. • Please to be particular in this, as I have never been absent on the Ba+lot question on a division. I remain your obedient servant, Bryanstone.square, Feb. 17, 1839. JOSEPH HUME VICE-CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.) His Honour the Vies.Cusscrt.toa sat in his private nom to.day. cotaWslN r. otPicOSlNst. mEstotas or THE LVITER TIMILS or UBOli(ill 155 rothrrtt. This case came before the Court upon a demurrer pia in by the de. fenliunt to the bill of the plaintiff, on the grounds of want of partiel anti eouisY. 'file bill was tiled by the plaintiff, Mr. Colburn, the publish er , . against the defendant Duncombe, for the purpose of obtaining the in. j urietion of the Court to restrain the defendant fl'orst publishing a work entitled "The Memoirs of the Latter Times of George the Fourth," the copyright of which had been purchased by the plaintiff The bill stated that on the 12th of July, 1816, an agreement in writing had b ee n made and signed between the plaintiff and an anonymous author ,that the latter, in consideration of a certain sum of money, should write, and atter it was written, sell to the plaintiff an original work, enuaisting of extract: from a private journal kept during the years 1613 and ISI4, comprising particulars of the late King George the Fourth, the Princess of Wales, and other persons, to be entitled " A Diary illus. „five of the Times of George the Fourth, interspersed with Letters from tl;e.tate Queen Caroline and other Persona." The w o rk i n quest i on w s written and delivered to the plaintiff in November 1836, who then pa id the amount agreed upon to the anonymou s au th oress, and pro. eee d e d to publish the work at great expense, and obtained for it a con. siderable circulation. A short time since, the plaintiff' discovered that _ wor k had been published by the defendant, which was clearly a l arscy of the one the copy r i g ht t o w h ich he had purchased, and he theft 4 1 0 /?4 g u l f4 ll (/ 'l)4' l 'o aq i!?1!!!!VtiPil tqtf'tkil: jug file defendant frpm pFoceoMg witlt Shat p!riley. ftithill aaandant put in dgmnrrgr npnn Iwo F9nnqy--Bro, that the plaint 4 had made no case to ontitlG hill) to dlicaVery and relief; secondly ; that the author or authoress of the work ought to have been made a party. That demurrer now came on for argument. Mr. JACOB and Mr. RICNABAW appeared on behalf of the demurrer. wf wiiis:s7; iiatTE and Mr. Smarts supported the bill. tiono" r .I!e..t.;!Hvziclst..oa !fr i coutquaioll Clut argt mea t gav e udgmerie,' tiyei'r'OTufg "tfie gerrarrePtoiwan oteci t utO, al l ow ing the onu for want of parties, Uttegiii)ii the p i laintl atlhe 'Ante time pert) , to 4ntqtl hiN bits wi;hiu ten dailtvithotit refuitiee w thV injunctical. ROLLS' COURT.-(THIS DAY.) SKINNERS' CO tIPANY V. MISR SOCIETY. Sir CII ARLES WETII ERS LT. this morning, addressed the Court on brhal of the City of London. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-('THIS DAY DakL, Fen. 17.-2 .i.)l wind E., strong, with snow and sleet. r.v., wind N. %V , moderate, clear and frosty. Fan. 18, wind N.W., moderate. Arrived and remain.—The Gladiator, Briton, from New York; her Majesty's brig Partridge, from Portsm3uth to Sheerness; the Sarah Nicholson, Puck, from Sunderland to New York. Passed by, the Comet, Ilasloop, front Messenia to Hamburgh. Came down from the river;:nd proceeded, the Greyhound, Knill, and the Sprightly, both for St, Michaels. PORTSMOUTH, FEE. S.S.E. to W., light airs. Fall. IS, wind W.N.W. to E., very light airs.—Arrived the Sir Edward Paget, Hall, from Madras, last from Plymouth ; her Majesty's ship Tribune, from Gibraltar, in forty.seven days; the Hopewell, Dixon, is become a total wreck, her decks are blown up ; stern-post and stern frame out; some of her stores have been saved and landed; much of the cargo has been washed out. Passed by, the Strathden, Cheape, from Madras for London, sailed 3d Oct., Cape 12th, St. Helena 25th Dee., Ascension Ist January, on the 29th January in lat. 32, N. lon. 45 spoke the ship Itelianc,.., and oil the 18th February the 11inerva, from Ireland;both for London. Sailed her Majesty's ship Partridge, for the Eastward; the Commerce, Wilkinson, for Christiana ;: the Gustav Adolph, Arent's, for Antwerp; La Belle Alliance, Archeoll, for the Cape, Madras, and Bengal ; the Pacific, George, Heart-of-Oak, Ryans, Thetis, Keith, and Hamilton, Ross, all for London ; the Inglis, Routh, for Bombay, got under weigh, but having fallen a-calm was obliged to bring up again off Ryde; the Janthe, sl'Kenzie, has been surveyed and must discharge to repair, the cargo is partially damaged. DONEE, Fin, IS.—Arrived off port, the Enterprize, Lassen, from New South Wales. HASTINGS, Faa. 18.—Arrived off port, the Adelaide, Guthrie, front Calcutta. SULLY, Fun. 16.—Arrived the* St, Patrick, Waller, from St. Andrew's; Prudence, Mundica, and George Canning, from the Mcdi. terranean; Jane, Light, from St. Michael's, put In here leaky, Sec.; and Dansel, Abbott, from St. Michaels, with damage, having been in contact with the Superior off the Skerrles. PENZANCE, Fan. I7.—Arrived off port, the Prince George, Chilcott, from Ceylon ; and the Ranger, Herbert, from Cape of Good Hope. Comic, Fin. 14.—Arrived the Euterpe, Telfer, from Demerara; and Nailer. Nailor, from Africa. Coax, Fan. 16.—Arrived the Alert, Gibson, from the Cape of Good Hope. Mints, Fan. I7...—Arrived the Royal 'William (steamer) from London. WEYMOUTH, Fee. 18.—The cargo of the Atlas, Pearce, from Dub lin to Landon, is being discharged, and it is expected she will be got off the following tide, without damage. The Twee Broeders, Poticed, from Surinam to Amsterdam ; Zorgen Tlejt, Bergher, from Liverpool to Rotterdam; Catharine O'Flanagan, Phillips, from - to Wales; Victoria, Adams, from Newport, were driven on the Rocks at Seilly, I.lth inta., and the latter sunk ; crew saved. The Cranam, Theobahl, from Shields to Dublin, was wrecked al Plymouth, 25th inst. The Dewdrop, from Amsterdam to Triot, and the Hanger Packet, were driven on shore near Falmouth 15th inst. The Royal Oak, Doyle, from Cadiz, put into Dublin River very leaky, having struck on the Bar. _ _ The Martha Pope, Jones, put into Dublin, dimasted—bound to London. The Oak, Penton, of Poole, is wrecked near the Black Middings. The Jean, Baptiste, from Bristol, put into St. Ives, and must discharge —bound to Rouen. The Tagus, Dobson, from Newport to Lo►►don, struck on some rocks oil St. Ives, and was abandoned by the crew. The Nottingham, Court, from Portland to London, is nearly full of water. BOW-STREET.-(THIS- DAY.) Frederick Rote, a compositor, was charged by 76 F Division, with being drunk yesterday, in the afternoon, in Exeter street, Strand, and with throwing a boy into the carriage way pavement as he was turning round the corner of the street. On being taken into custody he showed some resistance, but was ultimately flattered on to the station. Constable 6S corroborated the statement of the complainant. George Maccorbell deposed that he was in company with the prisoner at the time in question, and he did not appear to him to be the worse fur liquor. The circumstance of the boy falling was an accident, and could not have been done designedly, as the prisoner did not see him turn the corner holding a pair of skaites in his hand. Sir F. ROE ordered him to pay a fine of ss. for being drunk, and a further tine of 10s. for resisting the constable in the execution of his duty. POOR-LAW AMENDMENT BILL. A meeting took place this day at the Freemasons' Tavern, Great Queen -street, Earl Stanhope in the chair, for the purpose of petitioning Parliament and addressing the Queen for the repeal of the Poor -law Amendment Act. The advertisements calling the meeting had announced that the chair should be taken at eleven o'clock, but at that hour there were only thirty persons present, and at half-past twelve, when there had assembled between 900 and 300 persons, the impatience of the meeting was manifested by loud stamping of fleet and cries of " Chair l" Lord Stanhope about that time entered the room, and was greeted with much cheering. He was accompanied by ),tr. Fielden, Mr. Walter, Mr, Oastler, Dr. Wade, Mr. Murphy, Mr. Sault. Mr. Rogers, and several other gentlemen who haw taken a pro minent part in opposing the New Poor.law. Ina thy minutes after his Lordship took the chair, the room liesceoec pretty well 'filled. There were several respectable females press„ t. The CHAIRMAN mid, when he had the honour, about a year ego, of addressing . a numerous assemblage of his felluw.citleelat on the subject of the now Poor-law, he had then stated at leugtis the opinions he en. tertained upon that most important and interesting subject—and he had proved by arguments which ws man had yet uttempted to, confute—by facts mbiCh no nan would be able to deny, that the New Poor Law would to its ultimate operation be injuriesta eveo, to the rata pa)eee, anti was at present most oppresolve aw unjust towards those whose necessities compelled them to iktady for relief.—(Heat;) On the present occasion it would lea an isoult to their understandings. IQ. descant at length upon these (00(4, awl It would be unneeeesary to do so, in addressing UMW 00 were assembled in that reensa—they had heads as Well tse hearts, and they knew their dtttied, as well as their rights. He should therefore, at least at that etas e Q.( their proceedings, confine himself to the objects for which the tkaAt esstrubled ; namely, the formation of a Metropolitan AsSeelatiKts for the repeal of the Poor Law Bill, At the preliminary rrtectkitil they were aware that it had been decided to ask for the Iteveitl and not the Amendment ofthe Poor.law Bill, If tiaq were asked why they had nut appled for the latter, his (Eel stal.lllopO's) reply would be, that they might as well attempt to &Mend the Law as to wash a blackamore white.—(Hear.) The evils esi the Bill did not con sist alone in the cases of cruelty, intuatlec, aud oppression which had al ready been laid before thv liksbk, Such examples when the; were the natural Aild Witeeisery consequences of a system, ought to be abelished. When a tree was found to product : ands fruits, aceohling to the language' of the holy Scripturtg, it ought to be hewn down and thrown into the fire. — (Cheers) In opposing the Poor. law Bill, he would therefore call IrlpOrt She meeting to join him in ob. taining its repeal, even had there been no instances et cruelty and pp,. Bretoloili They lied all heard of the great exertions which Wer'elakilag merle for obtaining the abolition of slavery. It did not, of necessity, follow that a slave would be treated with crueltyh-that depended upon the caprice of his master. The Qltikrute.v• given of the Bill by Lord Wynford, on its second rearitila% twee its good and true, that he could not r l / 4 1 better then ;mod it, It was said by him, that if the Bill tuaseed ' they Would establish a sytem of grinding cruelty, and would wake the poor of that country more abject than the villain of (Ad, or than the slave in the est Indies ; they would neither Waldo to eat, drink, nor sleep ; in feel! scarcely hreattlO tho air of heaven without the consent of the Commissioners,--(Cheers.) There never was a time in the tory of tliltl oNitilllll that such unconstitutional powers we delegated ' to any three Coratni4sialiers. It was an abrogatiuss tst` the. ttt,tute of Elisabeth—a Statnte which had been truly %ClainA lviX. }tie less an with._ rity than Lord Bacon—" The poor mars'a charter," Above all he protested against such an Act twine repealed by those who called themselves the represontatlvw ofthe people, but who were not in fact what they ought to be, the remesentativee of the labouring clews lie had asked In the House of Lords whether a Parliament 110 meestitnted had the legal right, without the concurrence and sanction et the labour ing classes, to repeal an Act which was intended for their benefit, and which fur two centuries had rendered the Gauntry such signal services?— (Cheers.) But one of the principal objections w:lch he had to the New Poor Law, was the introduction in it of a principle, new to this country, new to every country, which called itself civilized and enlightened, namely, the punishing For, rty es a erime—(Hear, hear)--and immuring in prison those who solicited relief.—(Hear, hear.) He had been told in the House of Lords that he was wrong in calling the workhouses prisons, and that the proper name Ow them was asylums. Why, they might as well call Newgate an asylum fits felons, and the Fleet an asylum for debtors. In the manutlicturing districts, happily the law had not been enforced, owing to the patriotism and exertion of Mr. Oastler, and the determination and courage of the people.—(Cheers ) In Lancashire it had also been flail. trated by the struggle made by Mr. Richardson, of Manehebter, (Great applause.) Such had been the oppression of the Bill, and the great general and just discontent engendered by Its cruelties, that nu. merous Associations had been formed in those populous districts, uncon nected with any other political question whatever. It was homl, there. fore, that by the formation ore Central Society, the ingeettee of those Associations would be combined, and a numerical Ono he brought to bear upon the question, so that whatever delusion might prevail In the Cabinet (To be concluded in a Second Edition.) • The Lambing season has commenced, and notwithstand trig the severity of the weather, goes on favourably. The provincial journals abound, we are happy to see, in accounts of subscriptions for relieving the poor at this inclement season. As Mr. Hopkin was walking up the Trent-side, a little above the Wilford Ferry, he found a salmon weighing upwards of 71bs., which he supposes had been killed by the very severe weather. The same afternoon, another person found one near to the same place, about ‘2olbs. weight, with a piece of ice frozen to its head, —Nottingham Review. On Monday Mrs. Anthony, of Wisbeeh, put a period to her existence by throwing herself into the river, through a hole made in the ice. The poor lady immediately floated under the Ice; and although the rash act was committed in the presence of many I ,„„ ns no assistance coold be given. SIR JAMES GRAHAm.—Last week information was received at Netherby of the dangerous illness of Wm. Inge, Esq., of Thorpe, near Tamworth, who married a sister of the late Lady Catherine ' Graham. Sir J. Graham immediately set out for Mr. Inge's residence, but we understand that that gentleman expired before the Right Hon. Baronet's arrival. Sir James Graham has since proceeded to London, here hday. e has been joined by Lady Gr a h am and family.—Carlisle Patriot Satur It was Mr. Slaney, not Mr. Cayley, who gave notice on Friday of a motion for leave to bring In a Bill to protect tenants against the intimidation of landlords at elections. PATRIARCHAL FAMILY. —There are at this time five individuals of one family (three brothers and two sisters) whose paternal Lames are Pletchei, natives of Horsley Woodhouse, in this county, whose ages united together amount to the surprising number of 407 years. The oldest of the party, whose name is Oliver, aged 00, has been them) eP! o Yed for a great number of years in the occupation of igiirdeue meat of Edward Degge Sitwell, Esq., the 1 to ate E. S. Sitvrell, ,Of Stainsby House, and stilt Continues in ietor of this mansion. It id partlenkarly worthy of observation, tiro employ ppr 'resent hospitable that this venerable WO m 441, sem pleasure grounds are mown, tars hit he other*, and no argument cau pvavail open him rgiiii9 , ol.h t‘riq When gsttierina ap,plies i l ist season, he was seen i),PrOieo 41) orA Drilayiklre 4ec' Inkirki his tell ilia! hazardous employment.— N We regret to learn that Mr. Wil.i un Forbes Maci‘evie k the Member for Pcebleshire, has for some time past be00 , ,.04e.d with an attack of small-pox. • ELGIN ! — e Hon. rox Maule for these 4s.YotAd the possibility of a doubt. lie has villto gip„ I.lanttj eterhead, lnveiury, and Kildare (we are tlOl, ktihg-: Cher be has yet been to see Our good frlendi at cv,V i etl), anti the electors seen) to have vied atilops ther ne t c; , , , who should receive htnt most en. 414statitivally,—Abrrtleen Herald, MURPHY'S POLITICAL AL/IfANACK. PREFACE. -My political predictions of last week having been all ful filled to the letter, I am encouraged with a modest and becoming con fidence, to offer a few more for the present week. That they will prove to tie equally correct with their predecessors, I have not the slightest doubt, for they are based on scientific calculations, and we all know that modern politicians proceed invariably on the most profound ;dentin ; I have said it: Quoth Richard Murphy, MONDAY, TEL lOrst. Tkis night O'Connell, with spleen O'creast, Having had no fun for It fortnight past, And dying for want of a skrimmage, will fat/ In his wrath upon Colonel Pcreeval, Who, just as fond of a row, will reply With proportionate ferocity.— 'Tis known however, despite their paiief i That Dan and the Colonel lore eadh °thef t (The latter esperially doats oh Dan As David dotted oh Jonathan), So, after a brisk setoo, when each, From sheer ealhalistion, has lost his speech, They'll both sit down looking vastly clever, Shake hands, and be better friends than ever. Tniassaa - ---20ru. When St. Margaret's chimes ring evening out On Tuesday night, there will be a rout Of Members rushing across the floor, With a natural wish to be first at the door-- See, with what nervous haste Lord John, With Hobhouse beside bins, flies panting on, While, Daniel, as I need scarcely raention. Skips otter with visible apprehension ; And the motionless Speaker, left alone. Nits, like a Niobe, turned to stone ! 'Tis Peter Borthwick will cause this slight, By rising to speak about Milo at night; He will clear the Homo in as great a hurry, As once in Othello he cleared the Surrey, * And address his speech more heavy than lead. To benches as empty as S--hth—o's head! WSDNESDAY, '2 I BT. To-night—the very thought ont'spleasant-- There will not be forty Members present, So the Speaker with simpering looks and gay, Will throw ole his wig and scamper away (Taking big leaps like a boy at play) To make the most of his holiday. munsartsv On Thursday night, like a shrewd taatidan, Lord John will flirt 'with the Opposition ; He will cast on Sir Bob a, languishing eye, While Daniel and Duncombe cry out " Ofs fie!" And smirk and look fond in the Baronet's face With a sweet expression that promises place; Whereupon Sir Robert will reply With a glance of congenial coquetry; But atom with a phiz o'ercast with gloom, He will solemnly talk of his conscience, while Hume, Turning to Wakley, will whisper, I weep, " //is conscience: What can the fellow mean ?" N.ta Meese—This scene of coy flirtation Is meant, of course, for the good of the nation- FRIDAY-23 D. This night the Radicals, one and all, Looking grave as Mutes at a funeral, Will circulate divers grim jokes and Stories, • Of a coalition 'twixt Whigs and Tories ; Joe Home will sigh, and Wakley wi i mper, And Dan putting on a doubtful simper, Will hint, in a whisper to the Tail, " Now, boys, 'tis tine to think of Repale !". Whereat each joint will begin to clatter, Lite knives and forks on a pewter platter 1 LTU ADAM --24 TIE. To-night the Speaker, all frolic and fun, His senatorial labours done, Will exclaim, with a House-of-Commons cough, " Enough for the day is the dullness thereof," And then, dismissing his carce for a time, Will probably go to the Pantomime! * This eminent statesman once played Othello at the Surrey Theatre, and played it with such inco mparablealrollery and grotesqueness of ges ticulation, that a respectable married lady of the Jewish persuasion, who chanced to be in the House at the time, miscarried from excl.'s; of laughter. 1=1.•______........0•••m...... THE FUNDS-(THIS DAY.) CITY, E TWEL V O'CLOCK. We have receiv e d the Cape of Good Hope Gazette of the Sits Dec • but it does not contain any news, being entiaely filled with acliertise ments. The ship letters from the East Indies are of old dates. TIM FUNDS, Although it is Monday morning, and double post day, when general , / numerous arrivals are expected, we are greatly disappointed, for we ha ve very few. and of old date. In "consequence a very great d u l ness Pre' veils in the City, as we ll CO a stragnation in the various funds, bot h British and Foreign. Consels opened this morning at the leaving -off' prices of Saturday. 921 1 for the Account, same for Money. Exchequer Bills, OS 57 ; India Bonds, 55 57 ; Bank Stock, 203 206 ; India Stock, 264 i 263 i,,' . ' In the Foreign M ar k et the same inactivity prevails as in the British; Spanish Active 191 4, with Coupons ; Portuguese, 2'41 ; Three .pe t Cents, ,18i Brasil 73i 74 ; Columbian, "i Dutch, 53i i. i 28 ; Mexican,, 991 ' f vcs'or- We have received the Journal du Commerce of Antwerp 0 - • ~ day's date, bringing the Amsterdam prices of the 16th inst. Half per Cents, &I 3.15; Five per Cents, 101 13.16. PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. ..---• Bank Stock '2054. i India Stuck. S per Cent. Sec! 0114 I ,i,N 1 Ditto Bonds ......... 3 per Cent. Cons , 9.1304% South Sea Sc. k 31 4 per Cent-- „.. ........... Out Anrinities ... ...... ....„ ....-.. Ditto Red, lot% 1 4 New 0itt0....... ............... ~,, —. New 3 g per Cent MX, li i i i 3 per Cent.. Annuities. 1751... Two,ane a New 5 per Cent.. - Exch. Billa, £l,oofl ......... 55 57 ova. Rank LougAnnuitlestoexpire Ditto ..... ........500........ b', 57 pna. Jan. 5. Mt..— ...... 15 ,Ii 3-16% Ditto Smil ................ 55 57 pm.. Oct, lu, 1 ,, 50 — , Ditto Connaercial JJan. 5, 13651 14 IS-16' Ditto Advertised'., ........... —pm an. 5, 1880 ............. ....... Bank stock for Account ---- Jan.Aprii 5, 18.50...... .... ........ -- India Stock for Account —.• b. lr' - Consols fur Account ,873........, PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS Austrian Bonds 10(114 Belgian Bonds . Datio Account ........... EXAsilianßonds .. ... 74 1 4 Ditto Account ............. -.71 33 , a ...'itto New Bonds ......... ..... Buenos Ayres Bo n d i — Ditto Account Ditto Account ~« .. Ditto, 3 p er cent. liN 19 hillisin 80nd5...... .. .......... .. ..... Pincs:an Bonds ............ ....-- _.a. CADitto Aczinint — i Re..sian Bonds, 1822 . : .. .... •••••• ..- Dututika Bonds ..... ......... _... CoIIDO Accouiit ........ ...... ~ Ditto Metallic ....... ..... ...., s., I Diumbian Roads, it 124..... 27 , SPanish Bonds ....... ....... - tto Account ....... .........;7%!0i Ditto Account ...... ...., Danish Bonds .... ... Ditto Account ..».... — Ditto Aewrint l9%g Greek n0n444....... . . ... . ........ French, 5 per cent .......... _l. --- . .... --. l)(eka Bonds. 1825 — —— 4 per cent....... ... ' __e. __J. -'• Ditto Account - 3 per cent....,.....• , _..c. Mexican Bonds, 5 per cent -- ---• Eich l' , re... ......... .....„ L. DDitto Account itto, 6 per cent. ...... 29% 1,4 . Ditto Acc0t ur......... ....... _.-. Ditto Acc0unt, ............. .... N05p01itan.•......••••• ........... ..• .... i Mkt A'... comit PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY per Sha re- Paid. 3 Anglo Mexican Mining Conito,aity (iss. at 5/. pm.) 109 Brazilian Imperni I Minillil 1. , .. tim"..ed at 5/. pin.) 20 AT ONE O'CLOCK - Ditto Masaubas Cootie* Co ' , . ... mi 4.4 1)i Bo St. John del Rey ... .......................... 9 4% ................... ~, 9d British Iron Company ................... 0 .................. . B B i l r r , i tll ni , n 4 g t, h a ti m in aainidd GDieorubey.lsic;rowitlyZ:lyiv,:zzy„...... 2 i t s ) 17% 17 3 '6' 9!4 4 Cheltenham a las Gre4 Woistern Railway Company. ...... foininercial l ,all Railway Comp . y 6C to Wit r.a Dup te li r n . a c n o d u t a il , i , : en t,zilw it aav i lway 2 Ureat Wet;ila Hallway Com 3 15 larlahttle. Ital.way C ompan p an y 65 ‘5 y 14 5 LoiniOai and hlackw a il It ailway a Ditto Scrip .............. 7.3 i 7 ...... ..... Lon inn and Birmingham Railway Coni . isany 29 Ditto 1 ,4 Shares ...... . • 5 London and Creenwich Railway Company 2tl 10% London and S oul h ampton Railway Company 5O 41 40 London aacl Southampton (New) Railway a 22 M netiesiter and Birminghtun Railway 7 9 %54 No,rtliesti and Eastern Railway Company mann Midland Railway CsonpanY 25 8 suth Durham Railway Company 2% South Eastern and Dover Railway Company 7 York and North Midland Railway Company l2 Colonial Bank 2:1 !'RILES O 1 OF IRISH STOCKS. DUBLIN, FEBRUARY 17. 'filer Cent. Consols 92 Grand Canal Dens. ii per cent. ill% Ditto Reduced —l Ditto, 4 per cent. ... ........... 151,, 336 per Cent. stock 99 %1 Ilibeinian Bank ..................... 2% Ditto New. IS3) ........ g% tin' Cent. Debenture. Bank Stock Royal Canal Stock Grand Canal Stuck 28% cent • ......... -.. -- HALF-PAST ONE O 'CLOC K. Very little doing in either o r the Funds, although the British Market 1 at rather improved since the early part of the morning, from 92i 4 to 92i, at present 92i, sellers. Exchequer Bills, 55 57; India Boll*. 56 57; Bank Stock, 205* ; India Stock, 265. No speculations of any consequence have taken place in the Eoreigp Market during the morning : in the Foreign Securities, Spanish Active. 114 li, with Coupons; Portuguese Three per Cents, 18; McTican, 29i; Columbian, 27- i Dutch Two-and.a.Half per Cents, 53 4; Bra zilian, 74 1 14 . Casuals Ihr Itte A, Account 5 V :HIS DAY AT ONE O , cLOCL- Per Boar's Ditto Account Portuguese 2Son.le Ditto ' Vitt- Accet -.... -- 104 ut.s,2l THREE O'CLOCK. c - TNE WEATIIIIN.—(From the provincisl papers of Seta"' day.)—The frost continues unabated. Last evening we had a violent wind from the E.S.E. We are much afraid that we shall hear of some disasters among the numerous vessels that are off the port. 1 - 10 T Majesty's mail-packet had not, we understand, arrived a late hour.- - Liverpool Chronicle. e t , Tuii EATIIER.—In tho course of the week we h aVt . ) , experienced frost in great r i gour. Last night the wind because ver3 boisterous, which has had the effect of raising the sea, and several v 4 - 1- sels which left this harbour yesterday have returned. The thermometer to.day stands at the freezing point.—Berwick Advertiser. The weather, which had been for many days piercing cold, assum e d a still severer character yesterday afternoon, and, as nigh t approached, every d oor was closed, and every precaution used to mak!, all tight w i t hi n. The streets are quite deserted, and the thoughts ni what occurred in the winter of 1836-7 filled many a mind with anxiouC apprehensions of shnilar disasters. In fact, no one's windows sir can possibly b e expected to ride out, and so shifting is the wind, th at chi mney -stacks appeared se cure. Such a storm as now rages, no coaster, there can scarc e ly b e safe navigation any where. In short, this Is alto gether the seve rest weather we ever remember to have experience The Quicksil ver snail, which comes by way of Plymouth, h a s alone arrived, and w e must not expect further arrivals till the storm abates, chance of b e i ng fur the co ac h that can make its way through the snow stands a go " and of cour se, no bUsluess is doing .—Cornwall Gazelle. upset by th e tempest. The :hops in Truro are c l aw ed.. country Flocks of Swe a r h ave been seen in various parts of the ` During th e w h ole of this week, the weather has been y; not once thawing except where the Sun's rays could penetrate. there it was but Llightly, for by the time the Sun was near the tre*- tern laorisen the ground was again hard and crisp, and the nights have been very cold ; the mean temperature of this week, compared with also corresponding week of last year, is I 8 degrees colder.—en'aridgC Chronicle. On Thursday yea, 130 carp, tench, and chub, and 29 eels, were taken In a small spring of water, about a yard and s hale 'iint*.t, CI the b ead of a sheet of water at the front of Brawith u4.4r Thirsk, where they had been fumed up for air, owing to the in tense frost prevailing at that, Walt\ Many of the eels weighed upward , of 3lbs. each, 0411,U(V,i FlstirNG.,--rriday was the first tiny for result,- lAg the Tweed fisheries, but in consequence of the shore being covered Vi 'i t ti Ice, opera t i ons were confined to a few stations. At Norhato, st tiara c a ll ed Canny caught two s.almon and a trout yesterday, and this af ternoon throe o f ""`Bertek4 4dve r t e k . er , the statious below the bridge caught one twat each . '